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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: It is not straightforward. On social media monitoring, does Coimisiún na Meán have any input into the management of algorithms and how they are arrived at? I refer in particular to those that are negatively biased, which it seems they all are, farming out negative bias on social media posts. Is there any way to get at that? The witnesses are trying to point out that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: It will be difficult to deal with. A lot of the algorithms themselves are generated by AI. They are not necessarily something that somebody is sitting down to write a programme for. The programme is freewheeling and adapting all the time. It will be difficult. Another issue I point to is deepfakes, which will be a big part of political propaganda in the next six to 12 months. These are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: My final question is on the trusted flagger status. We know that will be an independent role, but the witnesses say they have a fast-track lane for approving trusted flaggers, and platforms will have to deal with them. What kind of teeth has the agency in terms of getting those processes up and ensuring platforms are engaging in a timely fashion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I have one more question and it relates to Coimisiún na Meán's remit in monitoring for public order, etc. During the Dublin riots, a particular messaging system was used to co-ordinate people to go there. The messages were put up publicly. If people saw some of the communications, it would be easy enough to infer what was taking place. First, if that is going on, how quickly can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: In respect of what I have outlined, should the commission say to another DSC that there should be some legal sanction for what has occurred or facilitated? Otherwise, how is it to stop this being repeated?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Operation and Resourcing of Coimisiún na Meán: Digital Services Commissioner (28 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: How does Ireland get that activity going? Let us say that we say we do not want to have a repeat of that. The best way not to have a repeat is to make sure that this has been flagged with the relevant platforms and, ideally, that there is some legal sanction. How is that initiated or how does the commission put that case across?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Government did not do much for SETU.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I have to be there to make sure they are announced.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: They are easy to count.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: With respect, I am not taking credit. I pointed out to the Minister that it was the least funded and it remains the least funded.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Those are walkways, not roads.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: The Minister obviously did not listen to me if he said I did not listen to him. If the Minister wishes to talk about commitment to the south east, he might put on the Dáil record now if the Government is prepared to endorse the €350 million project plan issued by the SETU president. This would be something like a game-changer. Is the Minister prepared to announce the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: It is still sitting in a public private partnership, which has still not been approved. Perhaps the Minister might approve that. Perhaps he might like to go down to the hospital and explain why it was cut out of the €650 million in capital funding given to the other eight model 4 hospitals last year. Perhaps he might answer the question of why in a decade that hospital received just...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Former Deputies John Deasy, Paudie Coffey, Pat Deering, Phil Hogan, Liam Twomey and Michael D'Arcy and Deputies Paul Kehoe and John Paul Phelan all are or have been Fine Gael TDs from the south east. All have either fallen or are on the precipice. Fine Gael, remarkably, won 50% of the 14 seats in the 2011 general election in the south east of Ireland. Once this Dáil has been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I thank the Minister. It is good that we can have a dignified debate on immigration. Many of us recognise the positives of inward migration, particularly into areas like our health sector. Ireland is not a racist country but there is no doubt that there is some racism in it. This is largely because of the perception rather than the reality. I am glad to hear the Minister talk about an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: As I said, perception is often the reality for many people. One of the problems that we have had with the whole discussion on the IPO is the lack of information. I ask the Minister and her Department to consider a comprehensive public information campaign that clearly outlines the policies, management aspects and resources that the Government is bringing to bear on this problem. That would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Maybe a public campaign would be a way to get those facts across to people.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: 3. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the latest departmental activities in terms of the management of international protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8329/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: Will the Minister provide an update on the management of international protection activities within her Department?

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

Matt Shanahan: I will divert slightly from the debate and ask a question. How does independent politics work for citizens in this House? As regards the provisions the Minister has put forward in this Bill, the value of it will become eminently clear. Social welfare assessment schemes used to take into account any and all revenues when considering applications for social welfare, working family...